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With a subtitle referring to heaven along similar lines to Eben Alexander, this is a personal book of a doctor's journey into the inner realms…… Read More »
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Let Evening Come – Reflections on Ageing
The author of this wise and compassionate book describes herself as 51% Episcopalian and 49% Quaker – it is a measure of her character that…… Read More »
Protecting Traditional Knowledge
Authors: Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Daniel F Robinson, Pedro Roffe
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Very few readers will be aware of the existence of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIP0) and still less of its intergovernmental committee on intellectual…… Read More »
Quantum Economics
Amit Goswami is best known for his idealist interpretation of quantum mechanics. Here he turns his informed attention on the implications of his view of…… Read More »
Between Debt and the Devil
Adair Turner was a scholar of Gonville and Caius College and President of the Union when I was at Cambridge 40 years ago. Now in…… Read More »
The Infinite Desire for Growth
The author is Director of the Economics Department at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, so this book has been translated from French. As such,…… Read More »
Climate Justice and Geoengineering
This new volume makes interesting reading as a follow-up to my review of Experiment Earth in Issue 123 (p. 53-54). It also cites the 2006…… Read More »
Brave New Arctic
Subtitled 'the untold story of the melting north', I was curious to see if the work of Peter Wadhams on this topic reviewed last summer…… Read More »
How Behaviour Spreads
On the basis of original experimental research, this book about the science of complex contagions gives the lie to parallels between the diffusion of viruses…… Read More »
The Origins of Happiness
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Psychology/Well Being
Based on extensive longitudinal data in four countries, this book about the science of well-being over the life course is a significant contribution not only…… Read More »